Flash Cards

I often find it amazing how one child will watch and mimic another child.

Each night at dinner we go through Luke's spelling words and sight words that are on flash cards. We ask him to spell certain words out loud and also when he looks at the flash cards he has to tell us what that word is with in one second or less.

As we do this every night, Thomas has started to join in on the fun. As Luke spells, Thomas spells along with him. He also wants to see the flash cards so he can say the word.

The other night at bed time he picked up a book and held it in front of me and quickly say's "doggy" and then he grabs another and say's "mickey". He was using the books like flash cards testing me on what was on the books. It was the funniest thing.

Have you experienced one child mimicking what an older sibling is learning or doing at a certain time?

I often wonder if we kept reinforcing and showing the sight words to Thomas if he would not learn those spelling words right along with Luke. Hard to say but they say at this age their little brains are like sponges.